Tag: body burden
Is Your Home in Ruins?
September 9th, 2016, No Comments
We’ve seen the awful sights of Syria’s ruined cities, smoke emanating from the rubble of buildings that used to be homes. The story of those abandoning the destruction is well known to newspaper readers and television viewers via the images of the Syrians trudging towards transportation and the hope of shelter. Earlier blog posts here […]
The Diagnostic Dilemma – Physician Detectives
December 12th, 2015, 2 Comments
Physicians today are faced with a problem in diagnostics that was historically rare rare in medical science. Formally, disease and injuries affected single organs or bodily systems. Today, the frequency of multi-system illness has led to remarkable discoveries in areas of autoimmune disease and the origins of multiple organ failure. A frequent cause of both […]
War Wounds
February 6th, 2012, No Comments
I’m very appreciative of the well-wishers who contacted me after my surgery. While more surgery is yet to be scheduled, I’m still healing from the last one. Many women will be familiar with after-effects like weeping surgical sites which leave pockets of fluid where cancerous tissue was removed. Given the incredibly high incidence of this […]
Pesticides in Schools: My Testimony Before the New Hampshire Legislature
February 13th, 2010, 3 Comments
The New Hampshire legislative committee on the Environment and Agriculture held a hearing on 2/11/10 to discuss Bill #1456 presented by Representative Suzanne Smith. This bill proposed the creation of a committee to study the use of pesticides in the schools and other places where children congregate. Here is the text of my written testimony […]
